Type Name:

COLUMBIA PLAIN GREEN DIPPED

Category:

MAJOLICA

Production Origin:

SPAIN

Production Date Range:

1490-1565

Defining Attributes:

Light cream to buff paste color, with a soft, chalky, spongy clay texture. Occasionally pink.

Off-white, cream, or grayish-white tin enamel, over which a light green, grass green or turquoise green lead glaze has been applied (usually through dipping).

Appliquéd appendages sometimes occur most often vertical I-shaped lug handles .

Vessel Forms:

BOWL
ESCUDILLA
JAR
PLATO

Comments:

Columbia Plain Green Dipped is essentially Columbia Plain with a portion of the vessel covered with a green lead glaze. Small fragments may be totally covered in the green glaze, and care should be taken not to misidentify these as a lead-glazed ware.

Published Definitions:

Deagan 1987; Fairbanks 1973; Goggin 1968; Lister and Lister 1982